1 Manassés tinha doze anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou cinqüenta e cinco anos em Jerusalém.

2 Ele fez o que o Senhor reprova, imitando as práticas detestáveis das nações que o Senhor havia expulsado de diante dos israelitas.

3 Reconstruiu os altares idólatras que seu pai Ezequias havia demolido; também ergueu altares para os baalins e fez postes sagrados. Inclinou-se diante de todos os exércitos celestes e lhes prestou culto.

4 Construiu altares no templo do Senhor, do qual o Senhor tinha dito: "Meu nome permanecerá para sempre em Jerusalém".

5 Nos dois pátios do templo do Senhor ele construiu altares para todos os exércitos celestes.

6 Chegou a queimar seus filhos em sacrifício, no vale de Ben-Hinom; praticou feitiçaria, adivinhação e magia, e consultou médiuns e espíritas. Fez o que o Senhor reprova, provocando-o à ira.

7 Ele tomou a imagem esculpida que havia feito e a colocou no templo, do qual Deus tinha dito a Davi e a seu filho Salomão: "Neste templo e em Jerusalém, que escolhi dentre todas as tribos de Israel, porei meu nome para sempre.

8 Não farei os pés dos israelitas deixarem novamente a terra que dei aos seus antepassados, se tão-somente tiverem o cuidado de fazer tudo o que lhes ordenei em todas as leis, os decretos e as ordenanças dados por meio de Moisés".

9 Manassés, porém, desencaminhou Judá e o povo de Jerusalém, a ponto de fazerem pior do que as nações que o Senhor havia destruído diante dos israelitas.

10 O Senhor falou a Manassés e a seu povo, mas não lhe deram atenção.

11 Por isso o Senhor enviou contra eles os comandantes do exército do rei da Assíria, os quais prenderam Manassés, colocaram-lhe um gancho no nariz e algemas de bronze, e o levaram para a Babilônia.

12 Em sua angústia, ele buscou o favor do Senhor, o seu Deus, e humilhou-se muito diante do Deus dos seus antepassados.

13 Quando ele orou, o Senhor o ouviu e atendeu o seu pedido; de forma que o trouxe de volta a Jerusalém e a seu reino. E assim Manassés reconheceu que o Senhor é Deus.

14 Depois disso ele reconstruiu e aumentou a altura do muro externo da cidade de Davi, a oeste da fonte de Giom, no vale, até a entrada da porta do Peixe, em torno da colina de Ofel. Também pôs comandantes militares em todas as cidades fortificadas de Judá.

15 Manassés tirou do templo do Senhor os deuses estrangeiros e a imagem que lá havia colocado, bem como todos os altares idólatras que havia construído na colina do templo e em Jerusalém; e jogou-os fora da cidade.

16 Então restaurou o altar do Senhor e sobre ele ofereceu sacrifícios de comunhão e ofertas de gratidão, ordenando a Judá que servisse o Senhor, o Deus de Israel.

17 O povo, contudo, continuou a sacrificar nos altares idólatras, mas somente ao Senhor, ao seu Deus.

18 Os demais acontecimentos do reinado de Manassés, inclusive sua oração a seu Deus e as palavras que os videntes lhe falaram em nome do Senhor, o Deus de Israel, estão escritos nos registros históricos dos reis de Israel.

19 Sua oração e a resposta de Deus, bem como todos os seus pecados e a sua infidelidade, além dos locais onde construiu altares idólatras e ergueu postes sagrados e ídolos, antes de humilhar-se, tudo está escrito nos registros históricos dos videntes.

20 Manassés descansou com os seus antepassados e foi sepultado em sua propriedade. E seu filho Amom foi o seu sucessor.

21 Amom tinha vinte e dois anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou dois anos em Jerusalém.

22 Ele fez o que o Senhor reprova; à semelhança de seu pai, Amom prestou culto e ofereceu sacrifícios a todos os ídolos que Manassés havia feito.

23 Mas, ao contrário de seu pai Manassés, não se humilhou diante do Senhor, antes, aumentou a sua culpa.

24 Os oficiais de Amom conspiraram contra ele e o assassinaram em seu palácio.

25 Mas o povo matou todos os que haviam conspirado contra o rei Amom, e a seu filho Josias proclamou rei em seu lugar.

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

7 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

8 And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.

9 And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

10 And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

17 However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

20 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

24 And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

25 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.